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The Sense of an Endling
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- eyeownyde 10y agoI imagine the last member of a dying society (defeated in war, disease, etc) has a similar lonely experience.
- ianai 10y agoHumans do too much harm. Yes, the world is violent. That doesn't mean we can kill anything at will.
- woliveirajr 10y ago> (...) and a gorilla used his hands to tell humans the story of how he became an orphan. This is touching. Deeply.
- brut 10y agoThe last pair of great auks had hidden themselves on a huge rock in the northern Atlantic. In 1844, a trio of Icelandic bounty hunters found them in a crag, incubating an egg. Two of the hunters strangled the adults to get to the egg, and the third accidentally crushed its shell under his boot. Without being too cynical, that exemplifies part of Human Nature in a nutshell.
- tscs37 10y agoWith only one living member of a species left and the egg, I doubt the species would have survived for much longer without humans.
- brut 10y agoIf I may, the article would be much more enjoyable with pictures of the animals discussed populating the margins. I am constantly googling for said animals :)
- cyberpunk 10y agoI thought this was going to be about the Booker prize winning book by Julian Barnes. Apparently not. I would check it out though, It's a good one!
- roystonvassey 10y agoThis is truly one of the saddest things I've read. :(